Atheism has had a resurgence lately thanks to such firebrands as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Having seen the peril of fundamentalist religion, they have tried to advocate reason in the face of rampant fantasy. But even before the atheist renaissance, musicians have often lambasted God and religion in their songs, from John Lennon's gentle plea for humanism to Bad Religion... [+]

Atheism has had a resurgence lately thanks to such firebrands as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Having seen the peril of fundamentalist religion, they have tried to advocate reason in the face of rampant fantasy. But even before the atheist renaissance, musicians have often lambasted God and religion in their songs, from John Lennon's gentle plea for humanism to Bad Religion's vicious assaults on all things religious. Here are some of the best tracks that question religion and God, or just annoy the religious in general (such as the Stones' brilliant and diabolical "Sympathy for the Devil". [-]